PHOTOS: Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown

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Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim cleric convicted of murdering a Fulton County sheriff's deputy in 2000, is getting another chance at overturning his conviction during an appeal case set for May 2019.

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H. Rap Brown, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee chairman is seen, June 1967.

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Jamil Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, is a convicted police murderer who has spent the last 17 years of his life behind bars for the murder of Fulton County sheriff’s deputy Rickey Kinchens.

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In this April 26,1968 file photo, civil rights leader H. Rap Brown converses with the crowd, including journalists, outside the student-occupied Hamilton Hall as he leaves the building on the campus of Columbia University in New York. Fifty years ago, students occupied five buildings at the university and shut down the Ivy League campus in a protest over the school's ties to a military think tank and what protesters saw as racism toward Columbia's Harlem neighbors. More than 700 protesters were arrested and more than 130 were injured when police retook the occupied buildings, during what was part of a year of global turmoil.

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Black Power Advocate H. Rap Brown sits legs apart as he takes part in conference of Anti-Vietnam war groups at the overseas press club on Aug. 28, 1967 in Manhattan. At his side is the Rt. Rev. MSGR. Charles Owen Rice of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A coalition of the groups announced it planned a massive demonstration in Washington DC on Oct. 21 in an effort to shut down the Pentagon.

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Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim cleric convicted of murdering a Fulton County sheriff's deputy in 2000, is getting another chance at overturning his conviction during an appeal case set for May 2019.

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Two unidentified New York City patrolmen guard the entrance the Mission of Cuba, to the United Nations, at 6 East 67th street, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1968, New York. Black Power militant, H. Rap Brown reportedly took refuge in the building.

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H. Rap Brown argues with police on the steps of the Federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., July 26, 1967, before the head of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee was arrested by Alexandria authorities. Brown, at center, with bandaged forehead, is ringed by a few followers. A policeman at lower right takes one of the followers by the arm.

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Black Militant H. Rap Brown is escorted to federal court at 5:40 a.m. Friday on June 2,1972 at New Orleans for resentencing on a federal gun control conviction. Brown, 28, also faces charges in New York in connection with a tavern holdup.

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Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim cleric convicted of murdering a Fulton County sheriff's deputy in 2000, is getting another chance at overturning his conviction during an appeal case set for May 2019.

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Jamil Al-Amin sits outside his store in Atlanta's west end. Supporters said he helped make the neighborhood safer for children.

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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, known in the 1960s as militant protester H. Rap Brown, sits outside his Community Grocery store in Atlanta, July 4, 1990. He accuses the civil rights movement of latching onto Nelson Mandela for its own ends. He says "they would love to lend themselves to the energy that surrounds him."

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Fulton County deputy Aldranon English wipes away tears as he testifies in the murder trial of the former black-power radical once known as H. Rap. Brown, now a Muslim cleric who changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002, in Atlanta.

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Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim cleric convicted of murdering a Fulton County sheriff's deputy in 2000, is getting another chance at overturning his conviction during an appeal case set for May 2019.

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Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim cleric convicted of murdering a Fulton County sheriff's deputy in 2000, is getting another chance at overturning his conviction during an appeal case set for May 2019.

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Jamil Al-Amin, a Muslim cleric convicted of murdering a Fulton County sheriff's deputy in 2000, is getting another chance at overturning his conviction during an appeal case set for May 2019.

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Black Militant H. Rap Brown, Above, was reported in serious condition on Oct. 16, 1971 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. With two bullet wounds in the abdomen. Brown was being questioned, a high police department source said, in connection with the critical wounding of a patrolman in a running gun battle on New York's upper west side early Oct. 16.

AP Photo/Mark Humphrey

Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, signs a program after speaking on Monday, July 1, 1991 in Memphis. Al-Amin's address is part of the week-long series of events marking the dedication of the National Civil Rights Museum.

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H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, is seen at a news conference in Washington, July 1967.

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New Black Panther Party member "Forever" holds a sign in Atlanta's Woodruff Park during a demonstration to protest the incarceration of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Saturday, May 27, 2000. Al-Amin is accused in the shooting death of a Fulton County Sheriff's deputy and wounding of another.

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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin reads a statement into the record during a hearing in his death-penalty trial in the courtroom of Fulton Superior Judge Stephanie B. Manis in Atlanta, Monday, Sept. 17, 2001.The 57-year-old Al-Amin - the black militant know in the 1960s as H. Rap Brown - is accused of shooting to death an Atlanta police officer last year. His trial was postponed until Jan. 7, 2002.

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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, prays during opening arguments his murder trial Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002, in Atlanta.

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PHOTOS: Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown

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